Transformation. Yoga, running, weightlifiting, dancing, acroyoga, fire dancing, sports nutrition, cooking, pedicures, my girlfriends, my boyfriend, watching movies, sobriety, meditation, travelling.
Quote from Karlfried Graf von Durckheim
“The person who, being really on The Way (the path to transformation), falling upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers you refuge and comfort and encourages your old self to survive. Rather, you will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help you risk yourself, so that you may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it, thus making of it a ‘raft to that leads to the far shore.’
Only to the extent that you expose yourself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within you. In this lies the dignity of daring.
Thus, the aim of transformational practice is not to develop an attitude that allows you to acquire a state of harmony and peace wherein nothing can ever trouble you. On the contrary, practice should teach you to let yourself be assaulted, perturbed, moved, insulted, broken and battered --- that is to say it should enable you to dare to let go of your futile hankering after harmony, surcease from pain, and a comfortable life in order that you may discover, in doing battle with forces that oppose you, that which awaits you beyond the world of opposites.
The first necessity is that we should have the courage to face life, and to encounter all that is most perilous in the world.
Only if we venture repeatedly through zones of annihilation can our contact with Divine Being, which is beyond annihilation, become firm and stable.â€
Spider Princess by Brian Andreas
"If I was a spider princess, she said, I would spin webs the color of sky & catch drops of sunlight to give to children who watch too much TV & then everyone would remember to come outside to play. If I was a spider princess, she said, things would be different."
I'd like to meet the Spider Princess! Yogis. Acrobats. Dancers. Lovers. Athletes. Figure & Fitness competitors.
People who own their power, people who are proud of themselves and their lives.
Funny, spiritual, sexy, well-read, healthy, brave people who understand the value of being present.
People who live to be of service to others.
People who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty, and who clean up well. :)
People who know how to PLAY!
"Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Open your hands if you want to be held." ~Rumi
Everything from Jazz to 80s Butt Rock. I love karaoke and can most often be found singing Bon Jovi ('cause I'm a cowboy!). I love R & B, hip hop, soul, funk, slam poetry, electronica, grunge, industrial... The list goes on!
Pumping Iron! Fight Club. G.I. Jane. Wedding Crashers. The Secret. I Heart Huckabees. Swingers. Spaceballs. The Break Up. Walk The Line. The Breakfast Club. Natural Born Killers. Die Hard. All the Matrix Movies. True Romance. Save the Last Dance. Step Up. You Got Served. Once Upon A Time In Mexico. Desperado. El Mariachi. From Dusk Til Dawn. Twelve Monkeys. The Fifth Element. Romeo + Juliet. Interview With The Vampire. Queen of the Damned. Catch and Release. Chocolat. Dirty Dancing Havana Nights. Shoot 'em up. Black Snake Moan. Snatch. 12 Monkeys. Grindhouse. Tarantino is a (twisted!) sexy bitch.
Cooking shows. Strongman and Bodybuilding competitions. C-Span. Discovery Channel. The Biggest Loser!
Alcoholics Anonymous. Cookbooks. He's Just Not That Into You. Fight Club. Catch 22. The Prophet. The Four Agreements. Be Honest, You're Just Not That Into Him Either. The Sparrow. Anne Rice's Vampire series and the Mayfair Witches. Functional Training for Sports. The Kama Sutra. Women on Top. Poetry. Erotica. Rumi. The Case for Hillary Clinton. Books about the Devil and Books about God. Books about Prayer and books about Sex. Books with silly titles like Island of the Sequined Love Nun that happen to be brilliant.
Bill W, Dr Bob. My first "grandsponsor" who baked cookies to bring to AA meetings so that the men would let her stay. Catherine Nyhan. Tiffany Searsdodd. Ghandi. Martin Luther King, Jr. Team Hoyt. Dean Karnazes. Demi Moore (She's badass AND she's dating a hot younger man. Come on!). Jackie Joyner Kersey. My dad for saving my life in so many ways. My sister for the same thing but different. All the women who came before me in the world of marathons and triathalons and the men with little kids on the side of races holding signs that say "Go Mommy".... they always make me cry.